Of course. You act like other regions and their fanbases didn't act arrogant and cocky after Masters 1?

with a sub replacing their best player kekw

I didn't say that. Just saying losing to team with a sub is bad. You realize that everything doesn't have to be bad/good? Xerxia can do good thing but that doesn't mean its bad for FPX.

I didn't say that what are you talking about? They can win and all good, but if they lose its bad. Really simple logic. While if FPX loses it isn't problem because they are playing with a sub and still took a map.

How is that wrong though? Losing with a sub is not bad, but losing against sub is bad. That is just how it goes. You should always expect the team with subs to lose unless the tier gap is massive.

Full FPX would have 2-0'd them already chill

Would be cool, but I doubt Vitality would get rid of their only French player at least for some time when they play in VRL. Also natank is decent right now IMO while zeek's performance has been bit inconsistent lately.

I mean he won/closed out them couple rounds and has good amount of kills. So pretty good for sub.

holy ANGE1 looks badass on the first shot the undertaker

Anyone who puts higher than 50% for FPX is capping. They are playing with a sub and we have no idea how well SEIDER will perform and how well he fits into the team. Especially when FPX plays these weird comps that may be hard to pull off with a sub. Xerxia should be even slightly favorited.
Full roster FPX > Xerxia, but with sub its =/<.

G2 is like saying The Guard was the only NA team in Masters 1. Both teams underperformed and looked better online. Fnatic and FPX got fucked and TL well weren't even supposed to be there and still did decent.

I mean both of those make sense though. If you lose with a sub it isn't upset, while if you win with sub its big achievement.

Guild 2-1 KRU

Yeah a lot of NA teams have strong opers that they rely a lot on or overall their duo of duelist. While EU teams seem to be more balanced on average. Just look at like Guild and FPX. Really balanced overall and support players have more impact in fragging department.

How can you get exposed when you play with a sub?

True that yay whiffed shots, but if you watch the game Guild countered him really well and constantly knew where he was holding. I would guess that that is the reason why Guild pick Icebox that is historically bad for them. Usually from OpTic's side its just yay show and not much more. They moved around the map and used utility really well to limit yay and that may have been their winning "secret" and why they picked it.

It kind of makes sense tho no? OpTic placed 2nd in NA (A), FPX placed 2nd in EMEA (B), and then you have DRX 1st and BR 1st (unless they are counted as SA with Leviatan). OpTic's fault they didn't place 1st and LOUD just got unlucky because of format.

His firepower isn't the strongest and some of his decision making it bit off at times like running around Sage wall in hand on Icebox (even in EMEA). But he is support player and his utility is usually good.

Marved is so impactful for OpTic. He is usually the one taking OpTic past finish line when yay isn't putting up crazy numbers or Victor in some cases.

True, but Guild's Icebox has always been pretty bad. Same with OpTic. That's why they picked it most likely.

Happy birthday enjoy!

EMEA 3rd seed...

brazil oh no no

What is this downtime between games what the fuck? Feels like DRX game ended ages ago. I understand production needs time and teams may not be ready, but holy this break feels long. At least have some funny skits between and not desk talk.

No one knows. Depends a lot on the form of Zyppan and Ardiis I would say. Zyppan can be bit inconsistent at times and usually they have Suygetsu to fill that.

Both good, but I have to admit that TMV has more info about all of the teams and statistics.

Not completely. Fade is just good on Ascent.

PlatChat - overall
Sliggy - analysis (also focuses on positives and isn't biased)
Tarik - clout aka most active chat

Sounds like Leo

We will have technical timeouts worth of 29.6 minutes during the first day. That is my prediction.

Every region has their own crazy players. Its just that these already play in high ranks while players from other regions start bit slower and have to climb up.

DRX wins
LOUD wins
Guild wins

Pretty cool, but bit underwhelming style compared to old ones IMO. I wish they made one more chill and artistic one like this and then hype one that is closer to the style of Masters 2 Reykjavik and Masters 3 Berlin last year.

forsen

That's cool. Have fun time and enjoy and hopefully we will see Fnatic in semis and finals!

Good to hear! Just question why did you go to Copenhagen like 11 days before crowd games? Just wanting to see the city? Its cool place tho if you have money*

37% for Guild. First game of the tournament. Also people are sleeping on Guild. The cap isn't that massive. Its almost like saying team like XSET would have no chances against OpTic in BO3. Because for some reason people have started treating Guild like if they were meh team.

On paper SEIDER seems to be the best individual out of the sub list in my opinion. Wasn't there rumors that he was scrim demon during some of the Masters? I remember some international team praising him. Maybe he can finally get a chance at good team and could show his potential.

SEIDER I'm pretty sure

Depends on team

True, but Ardiis can still save it
In Ardiis we trust, in Ardiis we believe

edit: they should just have EMEA players in every one because they are always the one carrying and bringing some spice.

perfect

Nah FPX isn't as dependent of Suygetsu as Fnatic were of Derke.

True. I remember there was constantly stuff on Twitter, Instagram and Twitch from the players, and VLR and Reddit were tracking every move the players made. Like their winstreaks, K/D etc on EU servers. It was pretty intense, there was constantly content to get hyped about.

But it has gotten weaker and weaker as LANs have gone by and right now its really dry. Also some of the teams arriving 1 week later takes away from that as well.

I guess it was just because first international LAN so more hype and players had to quarantine for like 2 weeks while now they just play almost instantly. But its still pretty sad because it added a lot to the whole viewer experience IMO.

Good for marketing: yes
Good for performance: no, unless he grinds shit ton and manages to fit into the team. Like I could see him doing decent against some teams with fragging because he still has good mechanics and has common game sense from his time in CSGO, but its unlikely. Like he could just smoke X spots and add some supportive fire, but that's kind of it.

but whatever the case is they won't qualify to Champions and won't perform well.

idk

He is/was overrated 100%, but its still going to be really interesting and weird watching Shroud play professional Valorant.

Crazy... I guess he just got bored of being millionaire streamer and wanted some content to his life

What does it have to do with controller though? Xbox is the default controller on PC anyway. Both controller have same buttom layout outside of like touch thing that doesn't even work on PC I would assume.
some video idk didn't watch it fully: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JARgdD5jZc&ab_channel=GameTechPlanet

Wait I'm so confused. Is this joke, Shroud joining Sentinels as streamer, Shroud joining Sentinels for LCQ because they know they won't make it anyway>??